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ONLY NEWSPAPER IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY .w:-?n J. J. MINER, OWNER AND MANAGER / A HOME 1?AI>ER FOR HOME f»EOPIjE-AUL. HOME PRINT • i t VOLUME*XVI BRBYARD, NORTH CAROLINA-^EIDAT. MARCH 10.1911. NUMBER»10t EXTRA SESSION OF CONGR^S CALLED President Taft issues Pro ca rnation. TO MEET ON AFRiL 4tii: Body Will Meet in Extraordinary Ses sion on the 4th of April—Canadiar RociprocLty Agreement Importanl- Question. 8 PERSONS HURT IN WRECK Eastbound Train No. 26, Memphis 8pe< cial, Ditched Near Bearden, Tenn. SENATE REJECTS POPULAR CONGRESS ADJOURNS. The Sixty-First Session Brought to a Close. Within the hour following the close of the sixty-first congress President Taft had issued a proclamation calling the new congress to meet in extraor dinary session at noon Tuesday, April 4. At that time he will submit for rati fication to a house overwhelmingly democratic and to a senate barely re publican, the reciprocity agreement with Canada. The McCall bill, carry ing that agreement into effect and passed by the house, met today at the hands of the old senate the death that had been freely predicted for it. The president, well watned, if not entirely reconciled to the fate in store for the measjire, was at the capital to witness the obsequies.» The bill was not allowed at any time to come up in the senate for a moment’s considera tion. The permanent tariff board bill,, forced to its passage through a reluc tant senate, was hurried over to the touse, there to be strangled by a dem ocratic filibuster. The president, in the room reserved for him in the' sen ate lobby, heard the news with resig nation. Congress provided funds to continue the work of the temporary tariff board for ajiother year. • It was at the request of the demo crats of the house and senate that President Taft fixed the date of the extra session on April 4. The new Democratic ways and means commit tee of the house, which ^s also to serve as the new “committee on com mittees,” will meet on Monday, to take up its latter duties. A full caucus of all the democratic members of the new house will not be held uiitil April 3. In the meaiitlme the plans for the extra session will have developed. There is little doubt now that the democrats of the house will undertake to revise at least two or three of the schedules of the Payne-Aldrich tariff act, and there is every reason also to believe that these bills will be favor ably received in the new senate—the increased democratic and insurgent strengtn in that body giving a major ity to the principle of a further revis ion of the tariff downward. Eight persons were Injured when Southern railway train No. 26, known as the Memphi? special, was derailed one mile east of Bearden. The cause \ of the derailment is not known. The injured are: K. M. Hodge, ^mail clerk, Bristol, head and left shoulder bruised. J. B. Keeble, mail clerk, slightly bruised about body. F. E. Pierce, mail clerk, pristol, left hip and hand bruised. J. M. Dawn, mail clerk, Bristol, back and left knee slightly hurt. H. E. Wiley, mail clerk, left hip bruised. • ) ^ A. P. Whaley, passenger, of Cleve land, shoulder slightly hurt. Mrs. Lydia St. John, passenger. Bluff City, Tenn., bruised leg and foot. Sam Pleff, passenger, Rochester, N. y,, slightly injured. _ , C The tender of the locomotive left the rails, carrying every coach off the track except ^he rear sleeper. The de railed cars were only saved from be ing turned completely over by a high embankment,'against which they fell. Telegraph poles were broken down, causing telegraph communication to be cut off from this city for over two hours. DR. NELMS DEAD. at Prominent Georgian Drops Dead Hls^ Home in Atlanta. John W. Nelms, for twelve years sheriff of Fulton cou^ty, and a figure in public life ever since 1874, dropped dead in the bedroom of his home, 182 Gordon street, Atlanta, Ga.', on Tues day night. At the time Mr. Nelms was dressing to go down town. His wife was in the room. 'The first intimation she re ceived of his illness was when he toppled over on the floor, and when sl^ reached his side death had already claimed him. Dr. Nelms had been in a serious condition ever since his defeat in 1909. On th^ day after the election he was suddenly seized by a severe attack of Senator Bacon, Georgia, Op posed tSaasQre. FAILED OF PASSA^ BY 4 VOTES. Thirty-Three Sehi^^^j^ Opposed the Amendment—Tii<5' Resolution Failed c|f Passage in th« iJpper House by Four Votes. ‘ The constitutional amendment for the election of United'.States senators by the direct vote of the people failed of passage in the senate Tuesday. The resolution received 54 votes, a clear majority of the membership of the senate, but a tworthii*ds vote was necessary for its passage. Thirty-three senators opposed the amendment. Senator Bacon, of Geor gia, among the number. He announced that; Senator Terrell, his colleague, would also have voted against the amendpient had ha bfeen present. The resolution failed of passage by only four votes, and it is conceded that the “evil day*? had been post poned only temporarily, as the mem bership of the next/senate will adopt the amendment. Fifty-eight .votes would have been two-thirds of those Totiiig. The defeat of the resolution may be charged to the Democrats, and their oppositidn is traceable to the Suther land amendment, giving ‘congress the right to regulate the manner of hold ing the elections. The following Democrats voted against the amendment: Bacon, of Georgia; Bankhead, of Alabama; Fletcher, of Florida; Johnston, of Ala bama; Money and Percy, of Missis sippi; Taliaferro, of Fldrida; Tillman, of South Carolina. Five Republican senators who retire to private life on March 4 voted against the amendment, as follows: In the retrospect the sixty-first^con- gress, which expired on Saturday by constitutional limitation, appears to have been distinguished by three things: The revision of the tariff in the so-called Payne-Aldrich bill, which was passed at an extra session in the summer of 1909; the large amount ot Impprtant legislation, much of it, upon the recommendation of President ^’aft, enacted at the regular session of 1909-10, and the exceedingly small product of the “short sesSibri,” so- called, now coming to a close. The interval between the last two sessions was marked by tlie political upheaval registered at the general election of last November, which changed a large republican majority into a still larger democratic major ity in the house of representatives; cut the republican majority in the sen ate almost to the vanishing point and incidentally effected striking changes in the senate personnel. The failure Qf this session to enact much important legislation has re sulted in the practical certainty that the new sixty-second congress will be called almost immediately in extraor- I dinary session, especially by reason of i the strong desire of President Taft to I secure action upon the pending reci- I procity agreement with Canada, to the I consummation of which the contract- ; ing parties pledged the utmost efforts of the two governments. BANK SAFE CRACKED. I Yeggmen Make Successful Haul From Clover, Va., Bank. the same trouble .that caused his ■ Dick, of-Qhei; FlUQtH*^ ^Calif«'nia; death, and since that time had been under the dail^' observation of his fam ily physician. Dr. M. G. Campbell. For the past year Dr. Campbell had been keeping Dr. Nelms alive by the use of different drugs, often visiting the Nelms residence three and four times in a night. It is stated by the family that Dr. Nelms had never been the same since his defeat His death was caused by heart disease. Hale, of Maine; Kean, of New Jersey,- and Burrows,* of Michigan. A band of robbers, supposed to num- 1 ber five men, between the hours of 1 and 2 o’clock, blew open the vault of the Bank of Clover, at Clover, Va., a , town of 500 inhabitants, forty miles I east of Danville, and escaped with all I the cash in the building. The robbers I secured between $3,000 and $4,000. I The robbery was spectacular and was completed only after a fusillade of pistol shots had b^n fired at citizens I who had been aroused by the ex plosion which awakened nearly the en tire town. BERTRAND CHOSEN. He V/ill Serve Until the Presidential Election in October. FOR BETTER RATIONS. Fight Begun More Than a Year Ago Is Successful. A dispatch from Puerto Cortez says: Francisco Bertrand has been agreed Dr. Nelms is survived by a wife anl i provisional president of Hon- ' ddras to serve until a successor to BANDITS SENTENCED. Southern Train Robjpers Given Va rious Terms in Prison. four children. He leaves estimated at $100,000. a fortune A Gainesville dispatch says that the Southern railroad train robbers, George Anderson, Hanford and Hunt er, were sentenced to serve terms in the penitentiary, the former being given twenty years and the latter fif- teen years each. The selection of a jury, introduction of testimony, argument by attorneys and reading of the verdict required only a little more than eight hours. Upon being arraigned, Anderson en tered a plea of not guilty, but Hanford and Hunter pleaded guilty and turned state’s evidence. On the witness stand they stated that Anderson was the leader of the gang, which was organized in Penn sylvania, they said, with the avowed purpose of committing a train robbery in this state. Anderson Is wanted in Victoria. B. C., to serve the remainder of a term for train robbery, but his conviction in this state means that he will not be surrendered to the CaAadian authori ties until after the completion of his sentence in Georgia. As he is 65 years of age, he probably will never Re required to complete his term in Canada. The robbery in which the prisoners ■Were implicated took place soon after tnidnight, February 18. Five men, for two of whom the officers ’are still searching, boarded the train and blew <>pen a safe in the express car, secur ing about $2,000. Only a few shots ^ere fired during the hold-up, and they were for the purpose of frighten ing passengers who left the cars to as- certam the reason for the stopping of ^e train. The bandits made their cape, but five days later two of .^^^^ord and Hunter, and the ; lowing day, Anderson, were cap- ured not far from the scene of the robbery.. Senator Watson’s bill prohibiting railroads from charging over 3 cents f passengers who have ailed to buy a ticket was passed by tae senate of Texas. It now goes^to • tne house. i EX-GOV. CARRQLL DEAD. Was Governor of Maryland in the Early Sixties. John Lee Carroll, governor of Mary land from 1876 to 1880, died at his home at Washington, after a long ill ness. He was born at Homewood, near Baltimore, in 1830. Governor Carroll was a direct- de- President Davis is elected in October. The two weeks’ deadlock in the peace conference was broken last night, and the final draft of the agree ment was signed today. * Dr. Bertrand is a supporter of Gen eral Manuel Bonilla and is one of the three men proposed by him for pro visional president when* the revolu tionary leader announced his with drawal as a candidate. It was agreed that the menjbers of the cabinet and all other government ofiicials shall be composed of an equg,l The fight inaugurated more than a year ago for the betterment of the ' rations served in the various national soldiers’ homes was won at Washing- ! ton when the provision in the sundry , civil bill, increasing the appropriation for this purpose by $160,000, was adopted. j Representative Cox, of Ohio, called I attention to the fact last year that the I average ration in the soldiers’ fhomes j was 14% cents, and that in some it I was as low as-11 cents, or about the I same as in the federal penitentiaries. The increase provided will bring the average rations up to 17 cents. scendant of Charles Carroll, a signer of the Declaration of Independence * During Gov. Carroll’s administration 1 of government and Bonilla po- occurred the famous Baltimore and Ohio railroad ^ril^e, one of the great est in railroad history. Federal aid had to be sought before the strike was broken. Gov. Carroll was twice married, first to Miss Anita Phelps, of New York understood that General Manuel i—, -t onn ^ * Romllo Tirill 'K-io ^ litical adherents. Complete amnesty was agreed upon, and the Honduran government will pay the war expenses both sides.- Absolute freedom of the presiden tial election in October is guaranteed. TO BE REI^EASED JULY 1. Taft to Commute Sentences of Lum bermen. * and in 1877 to Miss Mary Carter Thompson, of Staunton, Va. He is survived by three daughters and tliree sons. Countess de Kergorlay and the Baroness LaGrange, of Paris; Mrs. Robbins, of New York; Royal and Philip Carroll, of New '5fork, and Charles Carroll, of Paris. ' CHOLERA IN HONOLULU. United States Expected to Fight tfie Plague. It is believed that the territorial legislature, now iij session, will expect the federal government to take charge of the cholera situation in Honolulu. Two more deaths and three new cases In the last twenty-four hours bring the total up to eighteen cases and fifteen deaths, the three persons taken ill be ing still alive. The legislature appropriated $25,000 as an emergency fund for the board of health with which to handle the epi- d€|mic. ' The United' States revenue cutter Thetis is co-operating by keeping Japanese si^pans from carrying fish or- fresh vegetables from Honolulu to other islands. i The vault of the Tangipahoa bank, a branch of thOvAmite Bank and Trust conapany, at Tangipahoa, La., was blown open by^ professional yeggmen and S2.30(^ in cash stolen. Mrs. Susan Fitzpatrick, aged 80, was burned, to death at her home at New ton, Miss., when her clothing caught fire while standing before an open grate. She was a pative of Georgifi. Bonilla will then offer his candidacy for the presidency, but the present ruler, Miguel R. Davila, is . not ex- ’pected to be a candidate. General Rosales and Dr. Membrana, the peace envoys, consulted with Thomas C. Dawson, the representative of the United States, before Dr. Ber trand was finally agreed upon as pro visional president. Mr. Dawson is un derstood to be well pleased with the selection of Dr. Bertrand. According to a telegram received by Colonel W. W. Flournoy, of DeFuniak, Fla., President Taft has decided to commute the sentences of W. S. Har- ; Ian, manager of the Jackson Lumber j Company, of Lockhart, Ala., and four i others of that company, who are now ' serving sentences in the federal pris on at Atlanta, for conspiracy to com mit peonage. Under the order to be issued by the president, they will be released from prison after they serve six months, which will give them their liberty about July 1. They were sentenced to serve eighteen months. REMEMBERS THE POOR. John Schriner Leaves F4Jnd to Home City, Lancaster, Wis. John Schriner, pioneer merchant, has presented to the city of Lancaster $2,000 in Chicago railroad bonds. The interest each year is to be used to as sist the worthy poor oJ the city in the purchase of food, clothing and medical attendance. Mr. Schriner gave as his reasoii for making the gift the fact that he had lived nearly all his life in Lanqaster, and had prospered here. Mr. Schriner gave this city a party a few years ago tm a memorial to his wife. RAMSEY HEADS COLLEGE. Well-Known Educator Becomes Presi dent of G. F. C. in June. In a telegram received at Green ville, S. C., by the secretary of the board of trustees of the Greenville Fe male college. Dr. David, M. Ramsey, now pastor of the Grace Street Bap tist church at Richmond, Va., an nounces that he will accept the presi- I dency of the local college, to which he was recent!;^ elected. He will enter upon his duties in June. Dr. Ramsey was born in Greenville county, and educated at Richmond col lege, Virginia. His first pastorate was in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Probably the largest delegation to represent one city at a meeting of the Southern Commercial Ctmgress in the history of the org^zation will go from New Orleans to the Atlanta meeting, March 8 to 10. Mayor Behrman ap pointed forty-two delegates to the At lanta meeting and nearly all^f them have signified their intention 3t attend ing. WIRELESS FROM AIRSHIP. Aviator McCurdy Could Not, However, Receive Any Replies. / Aviator J. A. D. McCurdy made two flights at Bethesda park, at West Palm Beach. His machine was equipped with .wireless instruments, and on the sec ond flight McCurdy transmitted mes sages to the wireless station, but he was unable to receive replies. County Uovemm^t*. Representative—Thos. S. Wood. Clerk Superior Court- Cos. Paxton. Sheriff and Tax Collector—Fred A^ Shuford. Treasurer—Z. W. Nichols, Register of Deeds—B. A. Gillespie. Coroner—Dr. A. E. Lyday. ' Surveyor—J. C. Wike. Commissioners—W. L. Brooks, G. T. Ly day, Arthur Miller. ^ Superintendent of Schools—T. C. Hen derson. / Physician—Dr. Goode Cheatham. ^ Attorney—R. L. Gash. Town Government*. ______ ^ • Mayor-yW. E. Breese, jr. Board df Aldermen—T. H. Shipman. J M.\KiIpatrick, T. M. Mitchell, F. L. De- Vane, E. W. Carter. Marshal—J. A. Galloway. Clerk and Tax Collector—T. H. Gallo way. Treasurer—T. H. Shipman. Health Officer—Dr. C. W. Hunt. Regular meetings—First Monday night in each month. SOUTHEHN RAILWAY COMPANY- Transylvania Division. In effect January 2,1911. N. B —Schedule^ figures given an Information ouiy, au(i not guarantetd. Eastern Standard Time ST^TIONS P M 3 40 3 45 4 4> 5 00 6 05 6 08 5 18 5 6 5 5 5 42 5 B.5 6 02 .6 04 6 08 6 12 6 21 6 30 6 40 Lv Asheville .Ar Lv ..Hendersonville..'*Ar ...West Hendereouviiie Yale Horse Shoe y.. Cannou ’.’!!! —Y Etowah......... Blantyre J. Penrose • Davidson River Plsgah Forest Ar „ Brevard Lv Selica„ Cherry fleld —....Calvert. - Kosirfan „GalJoways Quebec Reid’s... Ar...Lake Toxaway...Lv A M 11 80 10 25 10 22 10 10 10 0& 10 02 9 S6 9 49 9 42 9 33 9 30 9 24 9 0» 9 01 8 58 S 9^ 8 50 8 43 - 8 34 t 85 Nos. 5 and 6 are through trains between Asheville and Lake Toxaway. No. 6 connects at Hei derscnville with the Caroliua Special for Spartanburg, Colufnbla and Charleston, and at; Spartanbuig with Nos. 11 ai’d 12 for Atlanta and Charlotte. 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